In the second quarter of 2026, the American cruise group Royal Caribbean reported record revenue for this period of the year, having totalled a value of 4.83 billion dollars, with an increase of +6.5% on the same quarter of 2025. Both the revenues generated by the sale of cruises and those deriving from sales on board ships marked new record values for the second quarter having stood at to $3.34 billion (+4.5%) and $1.49 billion, respectively (+11,1%). The growth in operating costs is more pronounced than amounted to 2.55 billion, with an increase of +11.6% produced by the increase in all items of expenditure. The value of the margin gross operating income amounted to €1.84 billion (1.2%), that of operating profit at 1.31 billion (-1.7%) and the value of net income to $1.14 billion (-6.4%).

In the period April-June 2026, the group's ships embarked a record number of passengers for this quarter equal to 2.40 million units (+6.4%).

Royal Caribbean has announced that currently the level of the demand continues to be high, even if the prolonged phase of geopolitical instability had a slight impact in the short term Deadline on reservations for some cruises. The group The United States pointed out that, however, cruise prices remain at record values and that booking volumes are higher than last year's levels. "Although it is still too early to draw definitive conclusions - specified the Group Chief Financial Officer, Naftali Holtz - the trend of bookings for 2027 is encouraging and higher than the historical levels, also for the itineraries with respect to which the demand has been influenced by the geopolitical developments of this year."

In the first half of 2026, the group recorded revenues of to $9.28 billion, representing an increase of +8.8% on the first half of last year and a new record half-yearly history. Even the revenues generated by both sales and sales of cruises and sales on board ships marked new absolute records having been equal to 6.36 billion (+7.1%) and 2.92 billion (+12.5%). The value of EBITDA half-year was 3.54 billion (+8.4%), the operating profit of €2.47 billion (+8.6%) and profit net of $2.09 billion (+7.0%).

In the first six months of 2026, the ships of the American group embarked a total of 4.91 million passengers (+9.2%), a number that is the highest ever for this reason period of the year is only lower than the all-time record of 4.95 million of passengers in the second half of 2025.